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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

World class towers or world class hole in the ground?

It has become obvious that construction has been halted at the Seylynn Village site. There is speculation that while digging the foundation the water table was a lot higher than expected putting serious doubt on structural base integrity for the foundation of any building, especially high rise buildings like the 32 storey high-rise that is planned as part of the Seylynn Village. At this point there is a lot of uncertainty as to the future of this development site.

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In her letter to the North Shore News editor, Leslie Myers asked many questions about the development of this site. Question number #2 asks about earth quake stability on alluvial land. She may have been on to something. Leslie Myers letter.

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Also, what is the basis for your first paragraph? What are your sources, or are you just speculating? Are you so intimately familiar with the process of tower construction to be qualified to make assumptions about what is going on with the project?

Cutting and pasting old content isn't going to do much to revive this blog, John.

I actually talked to Mark Sager today at the Lynn Valley Centre where he has set up an 'open house' for Lynn Valley Bosa Proposal and he said, (re: Seylynn)that the reason there is a work stoppage is because they are waiting for a foundation permit from District Hall. They had an excavation permit, but not a foundation permit just yet.

"If this project cannot be built as accepted by all the stakeholders including taxpayers, who will be found culpable? Nobody, but we will pay"

Culpable? They have approval to build it as it is currently designed, if some major geotechnical issue cannot be overcome then a new design would have to be submitted. If it fits within the current zoning then they would only need to come to council a development permit. The only financial exposure the district has is that if the project were downsized the amenity contributions would be expected to be scaled as well.

DNV wants this development to go through - it'll anchor the (re) development of the entire area, and they get good $$ for the work that needs to be done to remediate traffic in the area. SO they'll not hold up a permit unless there's a problem. Therefore one can only assume there's a problem

They have begun preliminary construction of some residential towers in Lynnmour and we have no idea whether or not they are proceeding on schedule and what, if anything, is impeding progress, if progress is being impeded at all.

Well, given that a large construction crane was erected this week and lots of other heavy equipment is moving about, I'd say that the naysayers' claims that there is trouble in paradise are way off base.

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